In-Home & In-School Therapy
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy helps your child become more independent with their daily occupations. In childhood, those occupations are play, learning, self-care, and social functions. Our occupational therapist will assess challenges, identify barriers, and provide techniques to improve skills.
Services are provided in the safety, comfort, and convenience of your own home or your child’s school or daycare.
What to Expect
Our relationship starts with a free 15-minute phone consultation.
We’ll then complete an hour-long evaluation in your home to assess skills using standardized assessments and clinical observations.
Following that, the therapist will share results and treatment strategies in a 50-minute parent conference.
Finally, as appropriate, we will schedule 50-minute therapy sessions to address any identified areas for improvement.
What Treatment
Looks Like
For your child, occupational therapy should seem like play. The therapist disguises years of experience, research, and training into simple, fun activities throughout a 50-minute session. Activities are goal-oriented and fun! She may have your child play with a favorite toy in a specific position to improve muscle control. Other times, she may bring a sanitized toy with her to draw out new skills and peak his or her interest. Your participation in sessions is encouraged to empower you to incorporate new skills into the weekly routine. After the session, the therapist will carefully document and chart your child’s progress.
Skills to Improve
Balance, Coordination & Postural Control: jumping, galloping, skipping, swinging, and climbing
Body & Spatial Awareness: understanding where your body is in space and moving around an environment efficiently
Executive functioning skills: organizing, planning, and making decisions to execute a task
Feeding & Eating
Fine Motor Skills: handwriting, drawing, scissor use, object manipulation, and dexterity
Play Skills
Self-Care: dressing, grooming, bathing, and eating
Self-Regulation: adjusting and controlling energy level, emotions, behaviors and attention
Sensory Development: processing, modulating, and integrating input from the 5 senses and beyond
Social Skills
Upper Extremity Coordination: eye-hand coordination for gross motor movements like ball play
Visual Motor Skills: eye-hand coordination for finer skills like drawing, copying patterns
Visual Perceptual Skills: making sense of what the eye sees in order to copy patterns, find objects in a busy environment, and more
Our Therapists have Experience With:
Anxiety/OCD
Arthrogryposis
Attention Deficits
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Cerebral Palsy
Chromosomal Abnormalities
Delays Reaching Developmental Milestones
Developmental Coordination Disorder/Dyspraxia
Down Syndrome/Trisomy 21
Failure to Thrive
Feeding Difficulties & Dysfunction
Fine Motor Deficits
Genetic Disorders
Hemiplegia, Stroke & Brain Injury
Hypotonia
Learning Disabilities
Mitochondrial Disorders
Muscular Dystrophy
Neurological Diagnosis
Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Prenatal Drug Exposure
Sensory Processing Disorder
Sensory Modulation Disorder
Spina Bifida
Visual Motor & Visual Perceptual Difficulties